Bottle holder



Oct. 27, 1925.

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- I l 1,558,966v F. H. cooK BOTTLE HOLDER Peieeiee @ce 27, 1925. l l 1,558,966'

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f nommen Homme.'

ApplicationN filed* .Tune 29, 1923, Serial' No.r 648,435.

To, @ZZ whom t moy-0072067121. Wherebythey will not only be oheapen'ed in Be it known that I, FREDERICK'H. vC ooig, a construction, but will' -be more e'iiicientV in citizen of the United States; residing at; use, positive in operation, automatic in ae- TippeCaIiQe, in the county of Miamiv and` tion, easily Operated', and unlikely to 'out 5 State of Qhio, have invented .certain new of repair. 55v

and useful Improvements in' Bottle Holders, A further object of the invention is to proof which the following is a Specification; vide van improved form of container, and

My invention relates `to a. safety ,deposit lockable closure-therefor." box for milk bottles andthe like, the purpose A further object of' the invention is to l of which is to preventthe bottlev being stolen provide bottle protectivemean's operated by eo or removed by unauthorif/ed; persons andi as he' insertion of a second bottle, therebyn'e'- :in equally, important feature of the inven- Cessitating'the return of empty bottles'by tion to Gompelv the returnA empty bott-les the customer, andproteeting` th`e`7deposite'd by requiring the insertion of-aseeondbottle bottles against thieifery and'thedepredation in the box or receiver in order toA release the of stray animals,.as Well as against treeyling (i5 full bottle. in Winter and extreme lheat in summer.

i-hedeyiee is automatically adaptalileto A further object of the inventionE is tol bottles of different sizesl as lia-lt pints, pints provide simple andv automatii: stop 'control' and quarts.` In a sin'ipliiied form thein-A means,foradapting-the device .tolbottlesv ol" -vention includes a housing` 4or box' haring differentsizes, anelito furthe-r'fproyidea 70 therein two yielding 'or AeXpaiiding'freeeivere simple and economical form'fof` bottlejcon-` 'or bottles, which are deposited therein? trolled lock for the closure. from thegtop. The box or housing-is pro- In VKorder that safety devices olf this charvided with a sliding co-ver movable tot andV aet.er*may be generally used, ,it is 'quite-necfro 110 expose and .afford access first to one essary that they be :of noiriinalv cost," which and then to then other of such-rece-iuers.' may be oifset the return toi the distrib? Detent m'ef-ns is pi'oyided i01- lokiflgtlijsf lit-ing company of ai greater number 'of reciproca y cover t either end of empty bottles, suihcient tio afford aprofitahl'e of travel, and hence inl position 4 to rcovei. amil? saying'. Moreover, Suchf device must be sub'- proteet the hottie deposited in either of etyantially foolproof 7" and Osudhchal-my.- S euch reoeir'era Stop-'fingers or rests are tor as to lnot neeessitate'lossof .time in loelrprovided at di-:lierent levels for 1the di-ferent ing- -or unlOeking/the depositorybox by the eizee of bottlee control-led bythe expansion delieryman'. YVirh these object-s in "view, it of the'receiyere to accommodate. the hotties is ,the ,Ohjeet Oifthe present invention .to 'at' of differentsizee, whereby when a pint bottle ford a. deposit bei; which will meet lthe com- S5 is inserted, the half pint rest iswitihdraf'wn in ercial requirements of economy, .utility and upon insert-ion oi'- a quart bott-le, the stop Huid Safety. or rest pertaining to both the half pint and iV-ith Tthe above primary and other "ineipint Sizes are retracted. Trip means is pito# denial o bjeets in vView as vwill more fully ap vided for elle lid leek, controlled-by tiievinpear .inY the Specification; the intention rCon- 9o veer-tion :of the bottle in the elosed'neceivei", Sietze Of the features V`of eoi'istruction',v the thereby permitting the cover-Lobe retracted( parts andy combinations thereof, and the to afford access tot-*lie hott-le ,in the opposite mode IOf .Operation or their equivalents as compartment vor receiver, the removal `of hereinafter described' 1and set forth in the e'liieli permits the engagement ,of the lid in Claims. e ts operated position. to protect the inserted- Referring to the Adrawings,Figl: .is aperiottle. speotixe .View yof the deposit xbox forming' ',iheohject of the invention yis Ato simplify the subject matter hereoff FigfQ isa side he structure VWel-l as the ,meansfand' mode: eleva-tion Witlithe housing .ineeotiomto dieopei'jatonfo Such Safety clepositfdeiiees, close the linterior mechanism. Fig. a 10o CII top plan View and Fig. 4 a detail transverse sectional view, on lines 3 3 and 4-4 of Figs. 2 and 3 respectively. Fig. 5 is a detail of a modification of the bottle stop or rest. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the closure lid in inverted position. Fig. 7 is a diagrammatic View of the operation of the bottle stops.

Like parts are indicated by similar charac*- ters of reference throughout the several views.

1n the embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawings, 1 is the box or housing, having in the top thereof, two spaced access openings 3-3. Slidingly mounted on top of the housing or box 1 is a reciprocatory closure lid 2, movable to and fro into registry alternately with the respective access openings 3. Located within the housing 1 in registry with the respective openings 3, are two yielding or expansible receivers for the bottles, each comprising two arcuate swinging side sections 4-4, pivotally mounted in spaced relation upon vertically disposed supporting shafts or rods 5. At their upper ends these swinging side walls 4 are outwardly flared or flanged at 6, thus affording a flaring mouth or guide for the receiver, through which the bottle is introduced. The swinging receiver walls 4 are spring pressed inwardly toward each other, so that when empty they conform substantially to the diameter of the smallest bottle to be received. This bottle is usually 'the half pint size. The actuating springs may be applied in any suitable manner, as for instance, helical springs surrounding the supporting shaft or rod 5, one end of which are engaged with the swinging walls 4 as shown at 7. In lieu of such spring construction, spring actuated bottle stops or rests 8 and 9 may be relied upon to also actuate the receiver walls 4. In Figs. 2 and 3 there are shown two of these bottle stops for each receiver. These stops 8 and 9 comprise swinging arms pivotally mounted upon the inner side of the side wall of the housing and projecting. thence through suitably located openings in the swinging walls 4 of the receiver tothe interior thereof. rllhe bottle stops 8 and 9 are of arcuate form, and are of different lengths, each arm is provided with an actuating spring 10, tending to turn the stop arm or rest inwardly and carry with it the side wall 4 of the receiver. These stop arms or rests 3 and 9 normally project into the path of movement of the bottles within the receiver and are located at such height that the corresponding bottle when resting upon the stop arm or rest will extendinto approximate relation with the access opening 3. The uppermost arm 8 pertains to the half pint bottle and extends within the receiver to support the half pint bottle in elevated position. However, upon'the introduction of a pint bottle within the receiver or intermediate the swinging walls 4-4, these walls are forced outwardly against their actuating spring. The swinging movement of the side walls 4 transmitted to the stop arms S and 9 oscillating these arms also outwardly in unison with the movement of the walls 4, thereby withdrawing the uppermost stop arm or rest 8 from the path of the pint bottle being introduced. The lower stop arm being of somewhat different curve, will continue to protrude within the receiver or intermediate the walls 4 4, after the stop arm 8 has been oscillated therefrom. The arm 9 will, therefore, be engaged by the pint bottle being introduced and will support the bottle in an elevated position above the bottom of the housing 1 with its top in juxtaposition to the opening 3. If, however, a quart bottle is introduced through the opening 3 into the receiver, the increased diameter of such quart bottle will force the swinging walls 4-4 of the receiver outwardly a greater distance, carrying with them the stop arms or rests 8 and 9 and effecting the withdrawal of both of such arms from the interior of the receiver, allowing the quart bottle to pass downwardly until it rests upon the bottom of the housing or boX 1. Thus the receiver is universal in its adaptation to bottles of diiferent sizes, and operates to support the different bottles with their tops at substantially the same level and within easy access through the opening the sliding lid in registry with either of the access openings 3, so long as the opposite receiver remains empty, there is provided on the under side of such sliding closure lid 2, parallel rack bars or ratchet bars 11, the teeth of which are imposed i1: opposite relation, and each of which is engaged by a spring actuated detent plunger' 12. The plungers 12 are slidingly mounted upon a supporting plate 13 vertically positioned centrally within the housing or box 1. Preferably one such detent plunger 12 is mounted upon each side of the plate 13 and in a plane common with the corresponding ratchet bar 11, carried by the closure lid. Each detent plunger 12 is connected by a stud 14, with an arcuate trip lever 15, pivoted at 16 to the supporting plate 13. The arcuate trip levers 15 are oppositely disposed and extend intermediate the swinging side walls L.lf-4 of the respective bottle receivers to the interior of such receivers and into the path of movement of the bottles as they are inserted between such swinging walls. So long as the bottle receiver is empty, the detent spring 17 will maintain the corresponding detent plunger 12 in engagement with its corresponding ratchet bar 11. This spring pressed detent plunger will permit the movement ofthe closure lid 2 in 3. In order to lock stop arm4 is one direction enly'. to .close the opposite receiver andv access 'opening 2, but. AWill 1 pre,- ventgany -return movement of the closure lid. Upon the introduction ofa bottleinto the/receiver through.- the uncovered open-- ing 3, the engagementv of such bottle Whether of largeor small ysize With the: arcuate trip lever l5 Will oscillate such lever-to. Withdraw the plunger. l2 from engagement with' the ratchet bar ll against the tension of its springy 17, thereby releasing v the closure lidr for shifting movement into position over the bottle receiver just filled and 'thusuncovering the bottlein the opposite receiver.` .Upon

the removal of the bottle from the uncovered receiver, the release of the trip arm .permits the detent plunger to engagethe ratchetbar corresponding to such receiver tolocklthe lid in its adjusted position.

In lieu. of the independent swingingstop arms or rests 8 and 9, bothlv of these stopsor rests may be carried on :usingle arnr as shown in .F` ig. In suchcase, lthe-stopsfare of different.lengthv`v and of different curvature, and in such case would depend.` for operation upon one of the swinging side walls 4: only. The operation and function is quite the same, the initial swinging move.- mentof the wall bottle or rest 8 While tl'ieintroduct'ion. of a quart bottlewill swing` the side wall 4, suliicient distance to attract ,the withdrawal of the pint bottle. stoporrest 9.. This double preferably spring pressed, as` be-` fore described, .but in the event .of its usethe opposite swinging` Wall a must `beprovided with an independent actuating springspreierably though not'necessarily as shown at?` In addition to the bottle operated detent before described `for the full bottle 4of milk by introducing an empty bottle in the opposite side of the'de.- posit boX. In such eventit would require both tlievdeposit of the empty bottleandthe use of' the key to enable the removalof the full bottle. Hoxvevensuch snap flock` would.

not at all interfere With the delivery man, compartment open would bottle therein, lslide the coverover, into.,its

the operation of snap Elock position, and remove theemptyy bottle from the other side.

In operationthe boX is-secured :against bodily removal by means of screws ordbol'ts introduced preferably th-roirgh'the interior oi.:r

the housing; The deliveryi'nan deposits the fullbottlejof milk inthe receiverthroughthe openings', and slides the closer, lid over such to accommodate a pint bot; tlebeing sulicient to Withdraw thehalf pint locking the slid-ingv closure, this closure may be provided with, a key operated snap lock 20, which serves to who finding the locked, deposit the fulli deposited, bottleto protect; it .agai nst removal` and i-'emoyes the exposed emptyl bottle. This.

leaves-the opposite compartment orlreceiver;

empty. The closure is held: inf'itsadr justed position by means of the detent plungerlQ... Ifnjorfder to releasethe closure and `withdraw` the detent the ,-customermust deposit ,int thecompartment; or; received', another.bottle, which@ by its engagementl withA thef arcuate tripnlever l5 releases'the closure lid'2,which maythen befdrawn toits oppositej position the full bottlere-v moved. Upon removal of the full bottle',A the closure lidl -isflooked'in its position over the emptyE bottleandthe deliveryman cannot take the empty bottlenvithout,leavingga; full bottlegin: its place. The device not `only insures the prom-ptreturn of empty bottlesr by the customer, but it, also serves as a check uponthe deliverymanwvho upon` his neglect or failure to .leave a bottlev of milk-cannot say `thatitfhad been. left and stolenfor that, the customer ymisrepresented the: Vfactijth at die didsnot .receive the .bottle. f While the vside Walls 4.- 4 ofgthe bottlereceiver -ory compartment have been shown constructed' from sheetimetal :for economy of manufacture, it ,is obvious rthat these swinging walls or compartment sides Imay be of ,open mesh formature.and-.thebottle receiver inthe form-.ofiaicage `It ,is tobeun-l derstood., that. the construction.;illustrated disclosed the invention ina siinpliied.r form, andis not Inecessarily.theI only form niem-` bodiment of the invention.,

From V,the above description itwvilli be ap parent that vthere isthusprovided a device of the y character described possessing f the particular',v features l.of advantage before enumerated as desirable, but which obviously is susceptible of modification in its form, proportions, detail construction and arrangement vof parts Without departing from the principle. involved or sacrificing an'of its advantages. `hile in order tocomply lwith the statute the invention' has been.. described in lans guage more orsless speciiic as tostructural: features, it istioubeV understood that the .in-1 vention is not limited to the specific details shown, but that-the means and `construction herein, disclosedy comprises` the preferred form, of several modes .of putting the in-v vention into effect and the invention is.V thenefore,y claimed in any. of its forms or inodiiieat'ionsv Within .the legitimate .and valid 4scope of the `appended i claims.

AI-I'avingv thus described z my inven.tion1, I claim: Y A l.4 In la; bottle receiver, an expansible and contractible bottle -freceiving compartment, a bottle rest .proj eeting Within said. com 3arlt-, ment to support a bottle ofredncedfsize, the expansible com,partm1-mt-l and bottle rest. be ingv operatively interconnected whereby Vthe f ment, a

expansion of the compartment to accommodate a bottle of larger size will automatically effect the withdrawal of the bottle rest to permit the passage of the larger bottle therebeyond.

2. In a bottle holder, a bottle receiving compartment, a bottle rest extending within the compartment for supporting a bottle of reduced size in elevated position, and yielding control means engaged by a bottle of larger' size for withdrawing the bottle rest to permit the larger bottle to descend beyond said rest.

3. A bottle holder for bottles of different sizes, comprising an expansible and contractible bottle receiving compartment, a bottle rest therein for supporting a bottle of reduced size in elevated position, the eXpansion of said compartment to accommodate abottle oitl larger size being adapted to effect the withdrawal of the bottle rest to permit the descent of the larger bottle to lower level.

1. A bottle holder for bottles of different sizes, comprising abottle receiving compartbottle rest normally positioned therein, for supporting a bottle of reduced size in elevated position, and yielding control means therefor engaged by a bottle of larger size upon insertion within the compartment for withdrawing the bottle rest to permit the descent of the larger bottle to lower level.

In a bottle holder, a housing having two bottle receiving compartments, an alternating closure or the compartments adapted to close either of the compartments and open the other, detent means for said closure for maintaining the closure in closed relation with one of the compartments, and means controlled by the insertion of a bottle in the open compartment for releasing the detent.

G. In a bottle holder, a housing adapted to receive two bottles, a reciprocatory closure for the housing movable from the path of removal of one bottle into that of the other, and detent means Jior the closure whereby said closure is retained in its adjusted position so long as only one bottle is contained within the housing.

7. In a bottle holder, housing to receive a plurality oi bottles, an adjustable closure for said housing rendering different portions of the housing alternately accessible and inaccessible, and adapted to prevent the removal of a bottle contained therein, detent means lior said closure, and means for releasing the closure by the insertion of an additional bottle into the accessible portion of said housing.

8. In a bottle holder, a container into which more than one bottle may be deposited, an alternating closure for rendering the deposited bottles within the holder alternately accessible and in accessible, a lock for said closure preventing access to the enclosed bottle, and release means for the lock operated by the deposit of bottles alternately in one portion and then in another of the housing to release the closure and permit the removal of the previously deposited bottle.

9. In a bottle holder, a box having a sliding top, two bottle compartments within the box into registry with which the sliding top is alternately movable, a locking detent Jfor said sliding top for locking said top in registry with one of said compartments, and release means for said detent operable by the insertion of a bottle in the open compartment.

10. In a bottle holder, a box having a sliding top, two bottle compartments within the box into registry with which the sliding top is alternately movable, independent locking detents for retaining the sliding top in registry with the respective compartments, there being one detent for each compartment, and release means for the detent pertaining to each compartment operable by the insertion of a bottle in the other compartment.

11. In a receiver for bottles of different sizes, a retractible stop for a bottle ot smaller size and means 'for automatically retracting the stop by the insertion oi' a bottle of larger size.

12. In a bottle receiver, a compartment into which bottles of different size are to be inserted, stop rests projecting into the com.- partment at different levels upon which the bottles of different sizes may be supported, and means for automatically retracting the stop rests pertaining to bottles of smaller size by the insertion of a bottle ot larger' size.

13. In a receiver for bottles ot dierent. sizes, adjustable rests upon which bottles of different height may be supported at diii'erent elevations and means controlled by the diameter of the bottle inserted for' automatically adjusting ythe bottle rest-s.

14. In-a bottle receiver, means for supporting battles of different sizes at different elevations and means for automatically varying the elevation at which the bottle is supported in accordance with its diameter.

15. In a bottle holder, a housing of sutiicient size to receive two bottles, a closure lid for the housing shiftable to alternate positions in either or' which positions it may cover and prevent removal of one bottle, leaving the other bottle it in the housing exposed and free for removal, and a detent for said closure lid controlled by the insertio-n and removal of a. bottle into and from the holder and operating to lock the closure lid upon removal of a bottle and to release the lid upon insertion of a bottle.

16. In a bottle holder, a housing having separate bottle compartments therein, a

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closure lid pertaining to the housing, lnovengagement with the ratchet member upon able to alternate positions in eaeh of which insertion of e bottle7 and means for reenit closes one Compartment and opens angeging the detent paWl with the ratchetv 10 other, a ratchet member movable With said member upon removal of a bottle.

closure lid, a detent p-awl movable into and In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set out of engagement with the ratchet memmy hand this 6 day of J une A. D. 1923.

ber7 means for withdrawing the detent from FREDERICK II. COOK. 

